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ecause it is the most ethical. –––––––––––– Man cannot even bear to look into the sun – so weak and immature is he. –––––––––––– Birth is cowardice: connecting to other people, because one does not have the courage to be oneself. That is why one seeks refuge in the womb. –––––––––––– The criminal does not even have a straight walk (crooked walk of the dog), not just an off-centre gaze (according to M. Rappaport). The criminal also always walks continually bent over (all degrees up to a true hump: the hunchback, the cripple, always seems to be evil). –––––––––––– Zola 12 is the absolutely humorless man. Smoke of the sun at its setting. –––––––––––– –––––––––––– Loathing is related to fear as desire is to worth. –––––––––––– 12 Zola, Émile (1840-1902): French novelist, critic, and political activist. Famous for the intense naturalism of his 20-novel series, Les Rougon-Jackquart. [Trans] 14
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man. –––––––––––– Does Nature also have a history? Is time also arranged for the events of Nature as a whole (the inorganic included)? Insofar as that were the case, there would be truth in the theory of evolution (paleontology). Is there an evolution of storms, of weather (perhaps corresponding to human history and symbolic of it?)? –––––––––––– The strange thing about time is that despite eternal change everything in it remains the same (“everything has happened before”, “nothing new under the sun”). Boredom = conformity to law = causality. Newness = freedom. The overcoming of time leads to the idea of the “Eternal Youth” (Wagner). Nature is eternally young. For here indeed nothing changes, and yet everything is always new. People who have little that transcends time, like the Jews, always feel world-weary and bored, because in time everything remains the same; Siegfried, on the other hand, is “eternally young”. –––––––––––– The present is as spaceless as it is timeless; and the goal of humanity can be defined as mere-prescence, as omnipresence (one usually understands omnipresence only as freedom from space, instead of understanding it as also including the absorption of past and future, of everything unconscious in the conscious present). The narrowness of consciousness should contain the universe: only then is man “eternally young” and perfected. –––––––––––– Pleasure is to be defined even more generally then than the feeling of creation. It can only be defined unequivocally as the feeling of life, as becoming conscious of existence; pain as the feeling of some kind of death (thus is sickness painful). We can thus note this much against eudaemonism, that the goal of the striving must not be mistaken for the feeling that arises at the goal (which I can know from experience). When I strive for the higher life, I strive for something whose accompanying phenomenon is higher pleasure, but not for pleasure itself. Likewise, man longs for woman, and woman for man, not directly for pleasure. 15
Page 1 and 2: OTTO WEININGER COLLECTED APHORISMS,
Page 4 and 5: Contents Introduction by the transl
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Page 8 and 9: Motto: Every true, eternal problem
Page 10 and 11: What also always leads to determini
Page 12 and 13: Pleasure is the mental correlate of
Page 14 and 15: Murder is a self-justification of t
Page 16 and 17: ------------ Every sickness is crim
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Page 20 and 21: The other possibility is that the p
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Page 26 and 27: found both; but masochism predomina
Page 28 and 29: only the mental become unconscious,
Page 30 and 31: thoroughly uncertain and, at the ve
Page 32 and 33: It also happens that someone impres
Page 34 and 35: Problem of two people, Problem of t
Page 36 and 37: egion), would have to feel more ash
Page 38 and 39: ------------ To the devil, everythi
Page 40 and 41: As the sun darkened, Christ’s spi
Page 42 and 43: ------------ All animals are symbol
Page 44 and 45: The criminal invents the snake and
Page 46 and 47: Epilepsy enters when a person says
Page 48 and 49: ------------ The Jew does not burde
Page 50 and 51: diagnostician, and thereby already
Page 52 and 53: The Nature of the Sciences I. The s
Page 54 and 55: possibilities. The ideas of freedom
Page 56 and 57: Himself must not suffer at all unde
Page 58 and 59: Jewishness, baseness and stupidity.
Page 60 and 61: Thirst for glory and immortality. T
Page 62 and 63: The mirror is the surrogate for the
Page 64 and 65: Freedom and universality - power an
Page 66 and 67: The stars laugh no more; to desire
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Page 70 and 71: Eudyptes chrysocoma 40 is a problem
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artificially induced diarrhoea (esp
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Whoever lies, is not. The snake and
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The psycho-physical parallelism gra
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Vanity is : To want to count in the
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Man realises his own essence throug
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Cher coquin cadet! 45 * 10th July,
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Dear friend! Bayreuth, 8th August,
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One thing: Write and say nothing to
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also ashamed when you are drawn to
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* Christiania, Friday, 22nd August,
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Dear friend! * (Postmark: 13th Sept
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Vienna, 18th October, 1902 Best tha
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Syracuse, 3rd August, 1903 Instead
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Write to me about how you are doing
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I was at the point of doing the sam
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In death
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Motto: Jedes wahre, ewige Problem i
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Also für Zukunft wie für Vergange
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------------ Kennt die Pflanze Lust
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allein aufgezogen und erzogen werde
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Ursache - Wirkung Mittel - Zweck
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Der Dualismus liegt darin, daß wir
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Alle Schuld sucht von selbst sich z
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Last, Leder, Lernen, lahm, letum, l
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geglaubt wird; Beweis sein Verhält
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------------ Was ein guter Musiker
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Die Megäre ist nicht, wie ich glau
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Problem der zwei Menschen, Problem
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Letzte Aphorismen Krankheit und Ein
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Der Greis ist eine falsche Ewigkeit
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------------ Der gleichförmig besc
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Epilepsie tritt nach Verschlucken a
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Jüdisch ist es, anderem (dem Chris
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Ich glaube, daß sicher meine Geist
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Wenn alles psychische Leben nur sch
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In der Beziehung zum Ethischen wird
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Jüdisches, Gemeinheit und Dummheit
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Der eitle Mensch ist in gleich hohe
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Sache: er malt die Sintflut, das Er
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Schlange und Hund haben Verwandtes.
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Die Wolken verdecken das Licht. Das
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Verstopfung ist kennzeichnend für
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Die alte Jungfer ist das Nichts, da
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Der Jude ist von Anfang an; und doc
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Jeder Erkenntnis ist Wiedergeburt.
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Cher coquin cadet! 10. Juli 1902 Ha
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Lieber Freund! Bayreuth, 8. August
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Sind die B.s in P.? (Entschuldige!
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Hast Du meine Stenographie lesen k
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werde ich erfüllen: Du wirst, wie
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Lieber Freund! R. hat mir gestern a
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Auch ich habe einen Monat Tag und N
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Reggio (Kalabrien), 22. August 1903
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Herr Doktor! Briefe August Strindbe
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Es war so geschrieben. Stockholm, 8
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